Career Summary
Susan has spent over 20 years in the tertiary sector, in education and more recently, health sciences. She began her tertiary career working in distance education as an editor and instructional designer, followed by 7 years as a researcher in the Faculty of Education at the University of Tasmania, working in the Centre for Research & Learning in Regional Australia.
Taking a break from the tertiary sector, she moved to the non-government sector in 2004, managing the first Tasmanian Communities for Children project which was funded by the Australian government under the Stronger Families and Communities inititiative. Working with project staff and in close consultation with communities, Susan was responsible for the development of strategic and service delivery plans for early childhood interventions in selected communities.
Drawing on the knowledge and experience gained in relation to early childhood interventions, and wanting to contribute to the researh base in this area with a partiuclar focus on rural communities, Susan returned to the tertiary sector in 2005. She is currently employed one day per week as a Junior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Health Science at the University of Tasmania, where she is also a PhD candidate supported by a Partners in Health scholarship.
Research Interests
Community partnerships involving schools and health services; community leadership; structures and processes to facilitate early childhood interventions in rural areas; provision and outcomes of vocational education and training in a rural context.
Selected Publications:- Kilpatrick, S Johns, S, Le, Q, Millar, P & Routley, G, 2007, 'Skill shortages in health: innovative solutions using vocational education and training', Rural and Remote Health Available http://www.rrh.org.au/ , Volume 7, pgs. 623
- Johns, S., Kilpatrick, S. & Loechel, B., 2004, 'Pathways from rural schools: Does school VET make a difference?', International Journal of Training Research, Volume 2 Number 1, pgs. 55-75
- Johns, S., 2003, 'Partners in the leadership dance: School vocational learning partnerships and community development ', The Educational Forum, Volume 68, Summer, pgs. 317–325
- Johns, S., 2006, 'Building effective government-community partnerships to nurture early childhood development in rural communities’, University of Melbourne, 25-27 September 2006. ', Refereed paper presented at the Governments & Communities in Partnership conference available at Available at http://www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/conference06/Johns.pd, University of Melbourne, pgs. 25-27 September 2006
- Johns, S., Kilpatrick, S. & Whelan, J , 2007, 'Our health in our hands: Building effective community partnerships for rural health service provision', Rural Society, 17, pgs. 1
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